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Where Everything New Is Old Again: Southern Gospel Singing Schools

Where Everything New Is Old Again: Southern Gospel Singing Schools Up Beat Down South Where Everything New Is Old Again Southern Gospel Singing Schools by b ro oks b le vins On occasion, during those informal singings, Orgel Mason, the founder and director of the Brockwell Gospel Music School, would take the floor to promote the school, tout the beauty of shape notes, and lead the house in a gospel standard or two. Mason organized the first Brockwell Music School in the summer of 1947. Photo courtesy of Beverly Meinzer/Brockwell Gospel Music School, 2016. 135 He looks like he should be in pads and a helmet, protecting a quarterback on some manicured Southeastern Conference field. But his massive hands and fin- gers frolic along the keyboard with the dexterity and unpredictability of mice in a late winter hayloft. He sits grinning through a goatee at the main piano, romping away at a tune he had never seen before yesterday, a new melody branded with the echoes of jangling strokes on pine walls and sunburned voices in t do or m wo- eet- ing houses. Twenty feet away, perched formally atop the second piano’s bench like a downy owl peeking from his nest, a wisp of a boy accompanies his http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southern Cultures University of North Carolina Press

Where Everything New Is Old Again: Southern Gospel Singing Schools

Southern Cultures , Volume 22 (4) – Dec 11, 2016

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University of North Carolina Press
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Up Beat Down South Where Everything New Is Old Again Southern Gospel Singing Schools by b ro oks b le vins On occasion, during those informal singings, Orgel Mason, the founder and director of the Brockwell Gospel Music School, would take the floor to promote the school, tout the beauty of shape notes, and lead the house in a gospel standard or two. Mason organized the first Brockwell Music School in the summer of 1947. Photo courtesy of Beverly Meinzer/Brockwell Gospel Music School, 2016. 135 He looks like he should be in pads and a helmet, protecting a quarterback on some manicured Southeastern Conference field. But his massive hands and fin- gers frolic along the keyboard with the dexterity and unpredictability of mice in a late winter hayloft. He sits grinning through a goatee at the main piano, romping away at a tune he had never seen before yesterday, a new melody branded with the echoes of jangling strokes on pine walls and sunburned voices in t do or m wo- eet- ing houses. Twenty feet away, perched formally atop the second piano’s bench like a downy owl peeking from his nest, a wisp of a boy accompanies his

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Southern CulturesUniversity of North Carolina Press

Published: Dec 11, 2016

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